Thursday, September 21, 2017

'Today’s NSA is in position to clear up any and all questions about intrusions into the DNC.' No need to "assess," no need for CrowdStrike, no need for Russia-Gate, no need for presidential order to release NSA data. Apparently Trump prefers Americans to be misinformed-William Binney, Ray McGovern, Consortium News

How can we be so confident? Because NSA alumni now active in Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) are intimately familiar
with NSA’s capabilities and practice with respect to bulk capture and
storage of fiber-optic communications. Two of us actually devised the
systems still in use, and Edward Snowden’s revelations filled in
remaining gaps. Today’s NSA is in position to clear up any and all
questions about intrusions into the DNC.

Our Jan. 17 Memorandum included this admonition: “We strongly suggest
that you ask NSA for any evidence it may have indicating that the
results of Russian hacking were given to WikiLeaks.” … “If NSA cannot
give you that information – and quickly – this would probably mean it
does not have any.”

The FBI could still redeem itself by doing what it should have done
as soon as the DNC claimed to have been “hacked.” For reasons best known
to former FBI Director James Comey, the Bureau failed to get whatever
warrant was needed to confiscate the DNC servers and computers to
properly examine them.

In testimony to the House Intelligence Committee six months ago,
Comey conceded “best practice is always to get access to the machines
themselves.” And yet he chose not to. And his decision came amid
frenzied charges by senior U.S. officials that Russia had committed “an
act of war.”

"William Binney (williambinney0802@comcast.net) worked
for NSA for 36 years, retiring in 2001 as the technical director of
world military and geopolitical analysis and reporting; he created many
of the collection systems still used by NSA. Ray McGovern (rrmcgovern@gmail.com) was a CIA analyst for 27 years; from 1981 to 1985 he briefed the President’s Daily Brief one-on-one to President Reagan’s most senior national security officials."

The Committee to Investigate Russia's website, InvestigateRussia.org, launched on Tuesday and includes a video featuring actor Morgan Freeman. Reiner
and Frum, who are both members of the group's advisory board, told CNN
that they felt compelled to act on the news of Russia's alleged meddling
in the 2016 election....

Frum
was a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and has been
an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Reiner is a lifelong
liberal who backed Hillary Clinton during both of her failed White House
bids and hosted a fundraiser for her at his Los Angeles home in 2015.